On 4/17/2012 10:11 AM, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com wrote: > Before Eva passed away she had found through DNA that the McCann Dna matched with a Murray. She wasn't sure if McCann's were Murrays or Murrays were McCann's. Was anything determined since 2006? Sue Pam McCanns being Irish, have a greater similarity with other Irishmen, because the Island forced many line convergences, and name alterations. Ireland adopted surnames relatively recently so there may be MANY surnames which share common male line ancestry from before the convention was adopted universally. In over ten years of waiting for "my" 67 marker match through FTDNA, I still don't match anyone closer than -4, and NO exact matches at 33 markers either. There may be some testers in other services who are near identical matches, but I haven't found them yet. They keep asking if I want to expand to 111 markers, and I said if I can't match at 33, why should I expand to 111? I am 'close' to many Irish names but primarily McCann, McCain, Keane, O'Kane etc. It doesn't help that my father was born out of wedlock to a known McCann, or that he had only daughters and his brothers died with only female children or childless. I would compare your known DNA data to the Ulster Heritage Project database. It may connect you to the testers closest to your dna lot. Jeff Scism